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RELIGIOI S BELIEFS. THE ORIGIN OF SECTARIANISM AND ITS EVILS AND CURE. A ChariM-terlatfe S»rwmn by Rev. Dr. T»l --magr Wrong Ed oration In the Home Circle Intolerance Never Accomplished Anvthingr God’* Snoxliine Utils Higotry. (Copyright, b> American t’ri's A -fo liation j •Wamum; ion July 21.—Jn hi* MTinon tinlny Dr. Tain ■ ihwr what sectarian lain n ally l«, it* origin, evils and cure The text w.-.x Jnd.-i - kli.i; Then Mid they unto him. Say now -aibli J<-th, and ho raid slLlxdcth. fir he could not frame to pronounce it right. 1 le-n tb< y took him anti -lew him nt tie* p/v- -igi’K of Jit dan. D<> you notion the difference of pronun elation lx tav.cn vhibt>ol«-th and -Ibboleth? A vit" einnll i::'I tminqtortu'it difference, you say, and yet that diflcroticc wax the difference !> t em life and death for a great many people. Tlx- Jx»rd «jx ogle, Gilead nn<l Ephraim, cot in to,a great light , and KpLiaim w.a.« worsted, and on the rc treat i nine to the fords of the rivor .Jordan to ci-oxx. Order wax given that ail Ephrnindte* coming there lw slain. Hut how could it I- found out v. ho w: re Eplir.'dlnite i iwy v. ( j e detected by th« ir pronunciation. SnitflMdcth waa a word that -toiHl lor river The Ephraimite had a brogue of theirown, and when they Cried to say "shibboleth” always left, out the sound of tho'*h.” When it was asked that they say vhi.b’>oleth. tiny said r.iljr, h th, and wore slain. '‘Then said they unto him, say now shibboleth, and he said sibboleth, for he could not. frame to pro nounce it rigid. 'J in n they took him and slew him at tiio pa->ages of Jordan '' A very small dliTerime, you say, between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet how much infoicraiice nlioiit that, small difference. The Jjord'.s trils s in our time—by which 1 mean the different deiffiminations of Christians sometimes magnify a very small (lit,ereiii c, unit the only difference betwi-cti scon :. of dcnottihmtions today is the difference between s.hibliolet 11 and sib bo let h Tho church of God Is divided into a grout numtier of dcnomlm ’ions Time would fail me to tell of the Cal vhiists, and the Arminiatis, mid the Kabl aim iatis, and the liaxti linns, and the Jiunkctx, and the fshakers, and the Quakers, and the Moth iMlists and the Baptists, ami the Episco pniinns, nnd the Lutheran*, and the Con gregat ionalixts, ami the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists and a score of other denominations of religionists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic mon, some of them founded by very bad men. Hut ns I demand for myself liberty of con ♦icleTire 1 mm t glvetbat same iiiierty toev cry other man, remembering that he no more differ from me than I differ from him. I advocate the largest liberty in all religious Ixlicf and form of worship. In art,, In politics, In morals and in religion let there bo no gag law, no liaising of the previous question, no persecution, no in tolerance. You know that the air and the water keep pure by constant circulation, and 1 think there i- a tendency in religious dis cushion to purification nnd moral health. Between t he fourth mid the si.'iteenth <•» n tlirles tlie church proposed to make people think aright try prohibiting discussion, nnd by strong ecus. r.J’.lp of the press and rack and gibbet ami hot lead down the throat tried to make peo; le orthodox, but it was discovered that you cannot change a man’s belief by twisting off ids bead, nor make a man see differently by t Utting nn awl through bis eves. There is some thing in a man’s conscience which will hurl off the mountain that you threw up on it, ami, unsinged of the fire, out of the flume will make redwings on which the martyr will mount to glory In that time of which 1 speak, betwen the fourth ai d sixteenth centuries, people went from the house of God into tho most appalling iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness and licent.iousne s such as tho world never h. aril of. ami tho very Rowers of perdition broke loose nnd flooded the church. After awhile file printing press was freed, and it broke the shnekl.s of f>he human mind. Then t here camo a large number of bad books, and where there was one man hostile to the ('brief tan religion thi-.e were 20 men ready so ad va cate it So I hart* not any nervousness in regard to this battle going on between truth ami error. Tho truth will conquer just, as certainly as that God is st ronger than the devil. Let. error run if you only let truth run along with it I rged on by skeptic’s shout and tranHeendontalist’s apur, let it run. God’s angels of wr;Jh nrc in hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle’s beak clutches out a hawk s heart God’s Vengeance will tear it to pieces. Phases «'f Sect®rirmism. 1 propose to speak t o you of sect art in ism- its origin, its evils p::d its cures. There are those who would make us think that this monster with horns and hoofs is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding place and dtag it out of the eav'erns of darkness and rip off its hide. But, I want to make a distinction between bigotry and the lawful fondness for pjx-ultar religious ik’llefs and forms of worship. J have no admiration fora nothingarian. In a world of such tremendous vlcissi tuile and temptation and with a'sold that must utter awhile stand before a throne of Insufferable brightness, in a day when tho rocking of the mountains and the flaming of the heavens and the upheaval of tile seas shall lie among the least of the excitements, to give account for every thought, wenl, notion, preference and dis like—that man is mad who has no re ligious prefrit .nee But our early educa tlon, our physical temperament, our men tal constitution will very much decide our form of worship. A style of psiilmixiy that may please me may displease you Some would like to have a minister in gown nnd bands and surplice, and others prefer to hr' ea min ister in plain citizen s apparel Some are most impressed when a little child is pre sented at the altar and sprinkled ot rhe waters of a holy lietn dietie.n ”iii the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and ethers are more im preS'H'd when the penitent comes upout of the river, his garments dripping with the waters of a lx*.[ J ism which signifies the washing away of sin Tx t cither have bis own way Gue man likes no noise in prayer—not a word, net u whistler An other num. just as good, presets by gestie ulatinn and exclamation toexpress his de votional aspirations. One is just as good as the other "Every man fully persuaded in his own mind Givrt e Whitefield was going over a Quaker i.qli, r roughly for son e of his re ligious sentiments, and the Quaker said: “George. I am as thou art. 1 am for bringing all v >’ tethe hepicf the gospel Therefore, if thou will not quarrel with me about my broad t-tlm. 1 will not qunr rel with k l-«x' r.L«» t:t thy black gown George, give tuc t’.?' Land In tracing out tue rcl- ion of soet.'.rinij ism or bi« try 1 find t> a great deal of | it conies from wret.g cdt emion in th-' home circle. Fbere are jiarvmts wh > <*■> not thii k it wroutr to c •-rieatv.re and jt<r the peculiar fortusof religion in the world ami denounei other sects and oil.er de nominations. It is M' v often the case that that kind of edu --<tl >n a -ts o; iioshe to wh... Vus i OM.Mi :»• d the chil dren grow up and after i.ohi.’c go and s-.-e for themseivis and. kviking in tho-' phurches and finding that the pec-plc fir gooff jbere ami tl y love Gu l and keep his courißfipd by natural reaction they go ami 'uju ;r.- s e very ebvivhcs. I could mention TTi-' uames of pr. .ninent ministers f the go.u>< 1 who xps-nt their whole lives burnt aiding other deuvniins tions and who livtil to see their children preach the gost-el m those very rienomina tions. But it is often the vase that bigotry start- in a hoi.-ehold, and that the subject of it never recovers There tire tens of thousands of bigots 10 years old. 1 think sectarianism and bigotry also rise frotu too great prominence of any one denomination in a community All the other denominations are wrong and his denomination is right bix ause his denoiu iniition is the most wealthy or the most poj.ular or the most influential, and it is “our” church, and "our" religious organ ization, and "our" choir, u-d our" min ister, and the man tosses his head ami i wants other denominations to know their places. It is a grunt deal better in any community when the great denominations i of Christians are about equal in pywer, marching side by side for the world's con quest Mere outside prosperity, mere worldly power, is no evidence that the church' is a--< ; udile to God. Better a barn w ith Chusi in the manger than a cathedral with iriigniflccnt harmonica rolling through the long drawn aisle and an angel from heaven in the pulpit if there ty> no Chir-t in the chancel and no i Christ in the rots s Bigotry sn<i Ignorance. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. , You s< Idorn find a man with large intcl : who is :i bigot. It is the man who i think- he knows a great deal, but doee I not. 'i hu» man is almost always n bigot. The whole tctuicncy of education and civ iiiztiiio’ Ist., b.-.nga man out of tiiat kind of state <>, n. nd ami heart. There wax in the far east a great ots-lisk, and one side of the «>L“ link was white, another side of the obelisk wax green, anot her side of tho obeli-M was b'ue, and' traiwrs went and looked a-' that oticlisk, but they did not walk around it. One man looked atone side, ano’hcr at another side, and they came home, h one looking at only one ' side, and they happt neo to meet, the story says, and they got into a rank quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One man said it was white, another man said it was ■ gns-n, another man said it was blue, and j wl i n they were in the very heat of the controversy a more Intelligent travele.r came nn<l wfid: ’Gentlemen, I have seen that oU iirk. and you are all right, and you are all v. rung. Why didn’t you all w alk around the obelisk?” Ixiok out for trie man who sees only one side of a religious truth. Look out for the man who never walks around atsiut 1 th' si great theories of God and eternity j ,»nd the dead Ho will be a bigtit inevita- 1 hly- the man who only s< >-s one side. , There is no man more to lie pitied than he ‘ who hi s in his head jic-t one Idea—no more, no less. More light, less sectarian- i ism. There is nothing that will so sooq ■ kill bigotry as sunshine—God’s sunshine. ■ So I have set before you what 1 consider ' to be tho enme-ot bigotry 1 have set be- • fore you the origin of this great evil. ! What (ire some of the baleful effects? First j of all, it cripples investigation. You are i wrong, and I am right, and that ends it. i No taste for exploration, no spirit of in- i vestigation. From the glorious realm of ’ God's truth, over which an archangel • might i)y from eternity toetornily nnd not ! re,,ci> the limit, them,'in shuts himself out ' and di. s, a blind mole under acorn shock. , It stops all investigation. Wiiile each <ienominatlon of Christians is to present all the truths of the Bible, it seems to me that God has given to each denomination an especial mission to give particular emphasis to some one doctrine, and so the Calvinistic churches must pre sent tho sovereignty of God, and the Ar minian churches must present man’s free agency, and the Episcopal churches must present the, importance of order and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist churches must present the necessity of ordinances, and the Congregational church must present the responsibility of the individual mem ber, and the Methodist church must show what holy enthusiasm, hearty congrega tional singing, can accomplish. Wiiileeach denomination of Christians must set forth all the doctrines of the Bible, I feel it is es|K“’ially incumbent upon each denomi nation to put particular emphasis on some one dix'trine. Damage Hone by Sectarianism. Another great damage done by tho sec tarianism ami bigotry of the church is that it disgusts people with the Christian religion. Now, my friends, the church of • God w/is never intended for a war barrack. People are at raid of u riot. You go down tho street, and you see nn excitement and missiles flying through the air, and you hear the shock of firearms. Do you, the peaceful and industrious citizen, go through that street? Oh, no! You will say, “I’ll go around tho block.” Now, nu n come ifnd look upon this narrow path to heaven,'and sometimes see tho ecclesi astical brickbats flying everywhither, and they say: ‘ Well, I guess I'll take the broad road There is so much sharpshooting on the narrow road I guess I’ll try the broad rood!” Francis I so hated the Lutherans that lie said that, if he thought, there was one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would puncture them and let that drop out. Just ns Jong as there is so much hostility be tween denomination and denomination or between one professed Christian and an other or between one church and another, so iong men will be disgusted with the Christian religion and say, ‘‘lf that is re ligion, 1 want none of it.” Again, bigotry and sectarianism do great damage in the fact tiiat they hinder the triumph of the gospel. Oh, how much wasted ammunition! How many men of splendid intellect have given their whole life to controversial disputes when, if they had given their life to something practi cal, they might have been vastly useful. Suppose, while I speak, there were a com mon enemy coming up the bay and all the forts around the harbor began to lire into each other. You would cry out: “National suicide. Why don’t those forts blaze away in one direction and that against the common enemy?’’ And yet I sometimes see jn the church of the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on—church against c.hurch, minister against minister, denom ination against denomination, firing away into their own fort, or the fort which ought to be on the same side, instead of consecrating their energy and giving one mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of darkness riding up through the bay. I go out sometimes in the summer, and I find two beehives, and these two hives arc in a quarrel. I come near enough not to be stung, but I come just near enough to bear the controversy, and one beehive says, "That field of clover is the sweet est,’’ and another beehive says, "That field of clover is the sweetest.” I come in be tween them, and I say: "Stopthis quarrel. If you like that field of clover best, go there If you like this Held of clover best, go there. But let me tell you that that hive which gets the most honey is the best hive!" So I come out between the churches of the l ord Jesus Christ. One denomination of Christians says. "That field of Christian doctrine is best,” and another says, "This field of Christian doe- I trine is the best. " Well I Bay, "Go where you get the most honey.” That is tho best church which gets the most honey of Christian grace for the heart and the most honey of Christian usefulness for the life. Besides that, if you want to build up any denomination, you will never build it up by trying to pull some other down Intolerance never put anything down. ! How much has intolerance accomplished, ! for instance, against the Methodist church? I For long years her ministry were forbid den the pulpits of Great Britain. Why ' was it that so many of them preached in I the fields? Simply because they could not { get in the churches. And the name of the '■ church was given in derision and as a sar- | easm. The critics of the church said, ; "They have no order, they have no meth- i od in their worship, "and the critics there- • fore in irony called them "Methodists.” J am toiu that in Astor library, New ' York, kept as curiosities, thew» are 707 , books and pamphlets against Methodism. I Did intolerance stop that church? No. I« i is either first or second amid the denomi nations of Christendom, her missionary stations in all parts of the world, her men not only important in religious trusts, but important also in secular trusts. Church marching on. and the more intolerance against it the faster it marched. Intolerance Avails Nothing. What did intolerance accomplish against i the Baptist church? If laughing scorn! and tirade could have destroyed the 1 church, it would not have today a disciple j left. The Baptists were hurled out of 1 Boston In olden times Those who sym- ■ pathlzed with them were imprisoned, and * when a petition was offered asking leni ency in their behalf all the men who sign- , cd it were indicted Has intolerance stop ped the Baptist chureh? The last statistics . tn regard to it showed 44,000 churches and ■ 4,COO,OOlicommunicants Intolerance nev er put down anything. In England a law was made against the ' Jew Etqdand thrust back the Jew and i thrust d-. wr. the Jew, and declared that no Jew should hold official position What came ot it? Were the Jews destroyed? I Was their religion overthrown? No Who j became prime minister of England? Who was next to the throne? Who was higher I I than the throne, tiecause he was counselor and adviser? Disraeli, a Jew, What were we celebrating in <JI our churches as well as: synagogues only a few years ago? The or 1 •■•’ndredth birthday of Montefiore, the great .vish philanthropist Intolerance never yet put down anything. But now, my friends, having shown you the origin of liiuotry or sectarianism and having shown you the damage it does, 1 want briefly t> show you how we are to war against this terrible evil, and 1 think we ought to begin our war by realizing our own weakness and our imperfections. If we make, so many mistakes in the com mon affairs of life, is ft not possible that we may make mlHtnkee in regard to our religions aff.drs? Shall we take a man by the throat or by the collar because he can not see religious truths just as we do? In the light o£ eternity it will be found out, 1 think, there was something wrong in ail our creeds and something right in all our creeds, but since we may make mistakes in regard to things of the world, do not let us be so egotistic and so puffed up as to have an idea that we cannot make any mistake in regard to religious theories, and then I think we will do a great deal to overthrow rhe sectarianism from our heart and the sectarianism from the world by chiefly enlarging in those things in which we agree rather than those on which we differ. Now, here is a great gospel platform. A man comes up on this side of the plat form and says, ”1 don't believe in baby sprinkling.' Shall I shot e him off? Here - is a man coming up on this side of the platform, and he says, ”1 don’t believe in the perseverance of the saints.” Shall I | shove him off? No. I will say . “Do you believe in the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? Do you trust him for time and for eter nity?” Ho says, -Yes.” "Do you take i Christ for time and for eternity’?” "Yes. ” I say, "Come on, brother! One in time and one in eternity Brother now, broth er forever.” Blessed lie God for a gospel platform so large that all who receive ! Christ may stand on it. Noble Institutions and Nobie Men. I think we may overthrow the severe j sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts and in therhurch also by realizing that all the ! denominations of Christians have yielded I noble institutions and noble men. There is nothing that so stirs my soul as this ; thought. One denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson; ' another yielded a Latimer and a Melville; j another yielded John Wesley and the i blessed Summerfield, while our own de- I nomination yielded John Knox and the ' Alexanders—men of whom the world was not worthy. Now, I say, if we ore honest and fair minded men, when we come up in the presence of such churches and such denominations, although they may be dif ferent from our own, we ought to admire them and we ought to love and honor them. Churches which can produce such men, and such large hearted charity, and such magnificent martyrdom ought to win our affection—at any rate our respect. So come on, ye 600,000 Episcopalians in this country, and ye 1,400,000 Presbyterians, and ye 4,000,000 Baptists, and ye 5,000,000 Methodists, come on. Shoulder to shoul der we will march for the world’s conquest, for all nations are to bo saved, and God demands that you nnd 1 help. Forward, the whole line! In the Young Men’s Christian associations, in the Bible society, in the Tract society, in the Foreign Mis sionary society, shoulder to shoulder all denominations. Perhaps 1 might forcefully illustrate this truth by calling your attention to an incident which took place 25 years ago. One Monday morning at about 2 o’clock, [ while her 900 passengers were sound asleep in her berths dreaming of borne, the steam er Atlantic crashed into Mars’ Head. Five hundred souls in ten minutes landed in eternity! Oh, what a scene! Agonized men and women running up and down the gangways and clutching for the rig ging, and the plunge of the helpless steam er, and the clapping of the hands of the merciless sea over the drowning and the dead, threw two continents into terror. But see this brave quartermaster pushing i out with tho life line until he gets to the ' rock, and see these fishermen gathering I up the shipwrecked and taking them into the cabins, and wrapping them in the flannels snug and warm, and see that minister of the gospel, with three other men, getting into a lifeboat and pushing out for the wreck, pulling away across the surf, and pulling away until they saved one more man, ami then getting back with him to the shore. Cun those men ever for get that night’? And can they ever forget their companionship in peril, companion ship in struggle, companionship in awful catastrophe and rescue? Never! Never! In whatever part of the earth they meet, they will be friends when they mention the story of that night when the Atlantic struck Mars' Head. Well, my friends, our world has gone into a worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on the rocks. The old ship has lurched and tossed in the tempests of 6,000 years. Out with the life line! Ido not care what denomination carries it Out with the lifeboat! I do not care what denomination rows it. Side by side in the memory of common hardships and com mon trials and common prayers and com mon tears let us be brothers forever. We must ire One army of the living God, To his command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now. And 1 expect to see the day when all de nominations of Christians shall join hands around tho cross of Christ nnd recite the creed: "I believe in God the Father Al mighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, ami in the communion of saints, and in life everlasting. Amen.” A Texas Wonder. HALL’S GREAT DISCOVERY. One small bottle of Hall’s Great Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder trou bles. removes gravel, cures diabetis, semi nal emisisons, weak and lame backs, rheu matism and all irregularities of the kid neys and bladder in both men and women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mail on receipt Os sl. One small bottle is two montbs’ treatment and will cure any case above mentioned. E. W. HALL, Sole Manufacturer. P. O. Box 218, Waco, Texas. Sold by H. J. Lamar & Son, Macon, Ga. READ THIS. Cuthbert. Ga. 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The in fantry number 5,212 officers and men. , There are eighty cavalrymen, with two ■ officers over them, which will be lost in the shadow of the big Fifth United States j cavalry, with its 1,300 officers and men. I The artillery force numbered 732, the en ' gineers 211, the civil guard 780 and the military police 196. The officers include i one lieutenant general, one general of di vision, seven colonels, fourteen lieuten | ants, twenty-seven majors, seventy-eigltt ■ captains, 121 first and forty-nine second lieutenants. company, one section of workmen of the j 5,219 men. distributed in five battalions of I infantry, one section of cavalry, one bat i talion of fortress artilery. one telegraph compnay, one section of workmen of the Park and a sanitary brigade. 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Lockhart. M —<B. D. Martin, Andrew 'Morris, Mick lin & Edwards, P —T. N. Parker. ~ S—Admas Spincer. T—J. D. Teal, Geo. Telford. V —Willie Vinson. —Jerry Walers, J. Walker, Chas. W. Watkins, Richard 'Wilyams. FEMALE LIST. iB- —Miss Madge Broen, Mrs. Annie But ler, Mrs. Kasan Brown, Mrs. Mary Brady. 'Mrs. L. Belknap. Mrs. Jossie Bruden. C—'Mrs. Fred Crosby, Mrs. Amy Chiles, Ida Collins, Mrs. E. J. Cox, Mrs. Annie Conner. D —Mrs. L. M. Davis, Miss Estelle Dun hart. E —‘Miss Lillie Elder. F—Mrs. Fannie Fenn. G —Mrs. S. E. Garner, Miss L. Graham. H —Miss Nennie Holomon, Mrs. Maud B. Hudson, Mrs. Howell, 327 Ash street. I —Mrs. Ellen Irby. J —Miss Hallie Johnson, Mrs. Sallie Jor dan, Virginia Jackson. K —Mrs. Irene P. King. L—-Miss Liddie Land, Miss Parley Lowe. M —Miss Mary L. Mason, Mrs. Julia Mc- Carthen, Hattie Maddox, Miss Sirlina Miles, Mrs. J. H. McDonald. N —Miss H. E. Newton. O —Miss Adline O’Connor. P—‘Miss Madaline Price. R —Miss Virginia Ramsey. S —'Miss Lena Sims. T—Miss Maggie Taylor. W —Mrs. Martha Warnock. To insure prompt delivery have your mail addressed to street and number. J. H. Hertz, Postmaster. J. L. Davis, Supt. The Sure Ln Grippe Cure. There is no use suffering from this dreadful malady if you will only get the right cure. You are having pain all through your body, your liver is out of order, have no appetite, no life or ambbition, have a bad cold —in fact, are used up. Electric bitters is the only remedy that will give you prompt and sure relief. They act di rectly on your liver, stomach and kid neys, tone up the whole system and make you feel like a new being. They are guar anteed to cure or prive refunded. For sale at H. J. Lamar & Sons’ drug store. Only 50c per bottle. About one month ago my child, which is fifteen months old, had an atack of diar rhoea accompanied ‘by vomiting. I gave it such remedies as are usually given in such cases, but as nothing gave relief, we sent for a physician and It was under his oare for a week. At this time the child been sick for about ten days and was having about twenty-five operations of tha bowels every twelve hours, and we were convinced that unless it soon obtained re lief it would not live. ChambeCaiii's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was recommended, and I decided to try it. I soon noticed a change for the better; by its continued use a complete cure was brought about and it is now perfectly healthy.—C. L. Boggs, Stumptown. Gil mer Co., W. Va. For sale by H. J, Lamer & Sons, druggists. CALL FOR TICKETS. Subscribers who are entitled to tickets on the prizes which are to be given away by The News can obtain them on Wednes day Thursday of Friday of each week by calling or sending to the office of the sub scription department. Office hours 8:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Remember that sub scription must be paid when due to secure tickets. G. W. TIDWELL, Manager City Circulation. The Rev. W. .B. Costley, of Stockbridge, Ga., while atending to hia pastoral duties at Ellenwood. this state, was attacked by cholera morbus. He says: “By chance I happened to get hold of a bottle of Cham berlain's Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and I think it was the means of saving my life. It relieved me at once.” For sale by .J. Lamar Sons, druggists. men. t-ues i Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles yhen all other ointments have failed. It absorbs the tumors, allays the itching at once, acts as a poultice, gives instant re lief. Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment is prepared only for Piles and itching of the private parts and nothing else. Every ‘ box is warranted. Sold by druggists or sent by mail on receipt of price, 50c and SI.OO per box. WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING CO., Proprietors, Cleveland, O. Subscribers must pay up and not allow small balance* to run over from week to week. The carriers have been tn rtrueted la accept no par* jnyment from anysne L _,-„CftSTORIA CASft|Hi|Thß Kind You Have I Always Bough! table Preparation Sm As- ;ga - ® sinrilating he Food anti ting the Stomachs and Bowels of |jjj ff & l i /a/ ” ——•— r ~ S Signature fM u i Promotes Digestion,.Cfeerful- 3*. ’ ff / ness and Rest Contains neither || c # |p ®r‘ Opuim.Morphine nor Mineral. afj 01 /I? f Not Nahootic. g H * Sj** • 8 & T i? Z" ft! ,“< \JM Pumpkin Sa<i~ r£j * 3 » AlxSenna * 1 7j£ w PockxlLi SJit - j AM? C Artist Sttd * I 3S’’ SA <fl « ‘v7 * ia up Ihe (jirrihcn . t §7 KJ\ Haver. ) J §7 * -J Apcrfect Remedy for Conslina- & ! H 0 ! lion. Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca. i&! | | a nuiu Worms,Convulsions,Feverish- l|g* B y.? ag ncss and Loss or Sleep. f f HBVB TacSimile Signature cf I Always Bought “ACT | «r . . « ’ACA t;?Mr->«Y, NCWYORH CITY. Central of Georgia Railway Company Schedules in Effect Feb. 25, 1898 Standard Tin e Wjfreax 90th Mei idian. .. N ?I 5 I A°; 7 *l No - I ‘l STATIONS I N<?. 2*| No. 8•) No. 8 L2oam| 740 pml <SO am|Lv Macon .. .Ar 725 pm 740 am| 350 «m « 1 4 ol pm 840 pm ' 850 am l Ar ••••Fort Valley Lv 627 pm 630 am| 242 pm . 8 35 pml. |!10 20 amjAr. .. .Perry Lv ! 5 00 pm 1111 30 am ' 3 38 pm .- ■:■ ■•■■ -I 9 40 am|Ar ....Perry .. ..Lv| 445 pm| |!11 30 am , 1 pm ! 49 91 pm ' > Ar --Americus ....Lv| | 518 pm| 107 pm ’q97 Pm 1? P “ Ar ’ --Smithville ~Lv| | 455 am|f 12 42 pm « H pm 11 05 P m l Ar ....Albany ...Lv) | 4 15 am | 1135 am 3 {) b pnl |Ar ....Dawson ....bvl I | u 52 am 3 48 pm Ar ...Cuthbert ...Lv| | | 11 11 am ® 99 PUI No 9 * lAr .. .Fort Gaines ..Lv| No 10 *| | 9 55 am 4 “J pm I 7 45 amjAr ....Eufaula ....Lvl 7 30 pm I 10 20 am 8 14 pra l--. I |Ar Ozark .. ~Dv| | | 0 .50 am prings. Lvj 600 pm| | 905 am 600 pm| I 905 ami Ar ..Un S | |Ar Troy. . . .Dvl | I 7 55 am 7 30 pm| ~| 10 35 am|Ar.. Montgomery ~Lv| 4 20 pm| | 740 am No ll.’! No. 3.*| ““NoTT»| I No7l?r~No^T^ _ 800 am, 425 am 415 pm Lv.. . .Macon. . ..Ar| 11 10 am| 11 10 pm| 720 pm 922 am| 547 am 542 pm Lv. .Barnesville . .Lvj 945 t 945 pm| 505 pia !12 05 ami 7 40 pm Ar.. .Thomaston. ..Lvj 7 00 am| !» 3 00 pm 955 am| 616 am 813 pm Ar. . ..Griffin. . ..Lv| 912 am| 915 pm| 530 pm • ! 4 pm|. (Ar.. ..Carrollton. . Lv| | |! 210 p® 11 20 am| 745 am| 735 pmlAr., ..Atlanta. ■ ..Lv| 750 am| 750 pm[ 4 Os. pm £ Jp - 9 - ! l, ,No- 4 - *! No. 2*| ' i “ N». 1. •] nV. _ B’.'*T "fio.X l“ 7 30 pm| 11 88 pro 11 25 am,Lv. .. .Ma con. . ..Ar| | 3 55 ami 7 45 am 8 10 pmj 12 19 am| 12 08 pmjAr. . ..Got <lon. .. .Ari 5 00 pm| 3 10 amj 7 10 mb 5 50 pm I’ 1 15 pm|Ar. .Milled gevllle .Lv|! 3 45 pm| 1 « 30 19 00 pmj 3 00 pm|Ar.. ..Eatonton. . .Lv|! 1 30 pml | 5 25 am ---I |! 4 15 pm|Ar. . .Machen. . ,Lv|!ll 20 am|. |. I I? 6 50 pmlAr. .. Covington. ~Lv|! 9 20 ami j... *ll 25 aml*ll 38 pmj*ll 25 amjLv. .. . Macom.. ,ar|* 3 45 pm|* 3 55 117 pm| 130 amjf 117 pmlAr. .. .Tennille Lv| 156 pm 152 am 156 pm 2 30 pm| 2 25 ami 2 30 pm|Ar. . .Wadley. .. .Lvlfl2 55 pm 12 50 am 12 55 pm 2 51 pm| 2 44 ami 2 51 pmlAr. . .Midville. . .Lvl 12 11 pm 12 30 am 12 11 pir 325 pm 315 amj 325 pm|Ar. .. .Millen. .. .Lv 11 34 am lx 58 pm 11 24 aw 8413 pm 4 42 am| 510 pmjAr .’Waynesboro.. .Lv| 10 13 am 10 37 pmislO 47 am b 530 pm 635 amj! 655 pmlAr... .Aug usta. . .Lvl.! 320 am 840 pmis 930 ata •••• i 42 ami 350 pm.|Ar. .Rocky Ford. .Lvj 11 10 am 11 19 pml I I No. 16. »| F No. 15. •> j I I 7 50 am|Lv.. .. Macon.. .. Ar| 730 pm| | I I 940 am|Ar.. Monticello .. Lvj 545 pm| I. I I 10 05 amjAr. .. .Machen .. ..Lvj 5 27 ptn! | I *!l2 30 pmlAr .. .Eatonton .. .Lv|! 3 30 pml I I I 10 45 am|Ar. ...Madison. .. Lvj 4 40 pmj | I I 12 20 pm | Ar. ... Athens ~ ..Lv! 3 &0 pmL | • Daily. ! Dally except Sunday, t Me al station, n Sunday only. Solid trains are run to and* from Mac on and Montgomery via Eufaula. Savan nah and Atlanta via Macon, Macon and A Ibany via Smithville, Maccn and Birming ham via Columbus. Elegant sleeping ca vs on trains No. 3 and 4 between Macs? and Savannah and Aaianta and Savannah. Sleepers for Savannah are ready fur oocu paney in Macon depot at 9:00 p. m. Pas- sengers arriving int Macon on No. ♦ and S» vannab on No. 4. are allowed to remain la sleeper until 7 a m. Parlor cars between Macon ami Atlanta on trains Nos. 1 and 2. Seat fare 25 cents. Passengers for Wrightsville. Dublin and Sandersville take 11:25 Train arrives Fort Gaines 4:45 p. m., and leaves 10:10 a. m. Sundays. For Ozark arrives 7:30 p. m. and leaves 7:30 a. m. For further information or sch edules to points beyond our lines, address J. G. CARLISLE, T. P. A., Macon, Ga. E. P* BONNER. U. T. A. sc H HINTON. Traffic Manager 5. Q. H.AILE. d P. a. VHF<» 11 Kl iNE <1 Southern R’y. Schedule in Effect July 6, 1898 CENTRAL TIME ~ READ DOWN. READ UP. No. 7 | No. 15 | No. 9 | No. 13 | We st. | No. 14 | No 10 ; No. 8 j No. 16~ 7 10pm| 4 45pm| 8 00amj 2 05amjLv.. Macon ..Ar 2 05am 8 20amjl0~55am| 710 pm 9 45pm 7 45pm|10 40am| 4 15am|Ar.. Atlanta. Lvjll 55pmi 5 20am| 8 lOamj 4 20pm 7 50am|10 OOpmj 4 OOpmj 4 20am|Lv.. Atlanta. Arjll 50pm| 5 00am' jll 40am 10 20amj 1 00am> 6 25pmj 6 30am Lv.. Rome.. Lv 0 40pm 1 44amj | 9 00am 11 30am| 2 34am| 7 34pm| 7 22am|Lv.. Dal ton...Lv 8 42pmjl2 lOamj j 750 am 100 pm, 4 15am, 8 50pm| 8 40am Ar Chat’aooga Lv 7 30pmjl0 00pm I 8 00pm 7 10pm| T Wn| 7 40gm| |at .Memphis . Lv | 9 15am]........| 8 00pm 4 SOpmj j 5 OOamj |Ar Lexington. Lv| [lO 50amj |lO 40pm~ 7 50pm| | 7 50am| |A- Louis viile. Lv, j 7 40aml | 745 pm 7 30pm| | 7 30amj |Ar Tinci nnati Lvj I 8 30amj j 8 00am 9 25pm| | 7 25pm| |A~r Annis ton ~ I Lv 7”I .~6 Y2pm 7..' I 8 OOanT 11 45am;. (10 OOpmj | Ar Birm ’ham Lvj j 4 15pmj | 6 00am 8 05am| | 1 lOamj 7 45pm|Ar Knoxville. Lvj 7 bdamj 740 pm! | 740 pm j | No. 14 | No. 16 | . South. J No. 15. I No. 13 | | I 7 10pm| 2 lOamj 8 35am Lv.. Macon. 7Ar 8 ~2oam, 2 00am 777.7 .. 77 ' I I 3 22am110 05-amjLv Coch ran.. Lvj 3 20pm 12 56amj .! I | 110 45am|Ar Hawk ’ville Lvj 2 50»pmi I j I I 3 54amil0 50am|Lv. Eastman. Lvj 2 41pm,12 2&amj I I 4 29am 11 36am|Lv.. Hel en-a.. Lv 2 03pm It 54pm | 6 45am| 2 38pm|Lv.. Jes up... Lv ll 22am 9 43pmj |. I i 7 30am| 3 30pm Lv Ever rest.. Lv 19 45a<ni 9 05pm I I I 8 30amj 4 30pm|Ar Brunswick. LV| 9 30am 6 s<>pm' - 8 00am 6 50pm .. . . 7 .777777.~ I >'o.7 | No. 9J No. 13~j East | No. 16~jNo. 10 | ~|. 7..... 7“ I 7 lOpmj 8 30amj 2 05am|Lv.. 'Macon.. Arfß 20amj 7 iOpmj... 7.7777” i 9 25amj 8 30pmj 6 10pm Lv Charlotte LvjlO 15am| 9 35am; | 1 30pm,12 OOn’t 11 25pm Lv . Dan ville. Ly[ 6 07pm| 5 50am| j I 6 25pmj 6 40aml |Ar. Richmond Lvjl2 01n’n|12 10n,n| | | 5 30pm| 7 35am| [Ar.. Norfolk. Lv| 9 30am110 00pm| | I 3 50j 1 53amj jLv. .Lynch burg Lv| 3 55pm| 3 40am| | | 9 25pm; 6 42aml |Ar Washgton. Lvjll 15am|10 43pm| j jll 25am; 8 OOarnl |Ar Balti'more Lv] 6 17am) 9 20pm| | | 3 OOamhO 15am| |Ar Phila dlphia Lv 3 50am; 6 55pm| | | 6 20am|12 45n ’n |Ar New York Lv[l2 15am) 4 30pm| | | 3 pm| 8 30pm| |Ar .. ..Boston Lvj 5 00pm,10 OOamj j THROUGH OAR SERVICES, ETC. Nos. 13 and 14, Pullman Sleeping Cars between Chattanooga and Jacksonville, also between Atlanta and Brunswick. Berths may be reserved to be taken a< Macon. Nos. 15 and 16, day express trains, bet ween Atlanta and Brunswick. Nos. 9 and 10, elegant free Observatior cars, between Macon and Atlanta, also Pullman Sleeping cars between Atlanta and Cincinnati. Connects in Union depot, Atlanta, with “Southwestern Vestlbuied Limited,” finest and fastest train tn the South. Nos. 7 and 8, connects in Atlanta Union depot with “U. S. Fast Mail Train” to and from the East. Nos. 7 and 6, Pullman sleeping cars between Macon and Asheville. FRANK S. GANNON, 3d V. P. & G. M., J. M. CULP, Traffic Manager, W r ashlngon, D. Q W’ashington, D. C. W. A. TURK, G. P. A., 8. H. HARDWICK, A. G. P. A., Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga, ?A\T)\U, CLIFTON, T. P. A., BURR BROWN, C. T. A., Macon, Ga. 565 Mulberry St, Macon, Ga. HOT SPINGS, Nort Carolina -Mountain Park liotei and Barbe—Mcxlero Hotel Meaa In Every Department— Table and Service UnexceUcO. Swimming Pool, Bowling, Tenets, Golf, Pool and Hilliards. Photographer's dart room. Riding, Driving. Tennis, Large Ball Room and Auditorium. Special reduced summer rate*. BEARDEN'S Orchestra. T. D. Green, Manager. POPULAR SUMMER RESORT. Dalton. Ga., is now one the most popular summer resorts in the South — climate delightful, scenery supert). beauti fu! drives, good livery. Hotel Dalton is the home cf the resort seeker and the com mercial traveler. Elegantly b'riit, electric bells, elevator, telephone, bpt anl cold baths on every floor. Special rates to families. Muny come cacti summer from lower Geewgla and Florida. Further in formation given 1»- D. L. I T ET , n>4< ........ Dalton, Ga. Newport of the South. SEASON OF 1898. Motel St. Simon ♦ St. Simons Island, Georgia. Newly equipped. Rates SIO.OO per week. Sea bath ing. Fishing, Boating, Lawn Tenuis, Driving, Dancing, Billiards and Pool. Two gertnans weekly. 25 mile bicycle path. Excellent orchestra. Hotel lighted by electricity. Table the best. W. B. ISAACS, Lessee. Keep out of Reach of the Spanish Gun. TAKE THE C H. & D. TO MICHIGAN. 3 Trains Daily. Finest Trains in Ohio. Fastest Trains in Ohio. Michigan and the Great Lakes •onstantly growing in popularity. Every body will be there this summer. For information inquire of your nearest ticket agent. I). G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, O. ills Mi- TO GO To the niountalns. Warm Springs, Ga. 4H in me mountains, Where the weather ie delightfully cool and ; the conditions are all healthful. The Warm Springs water is the best and most pleasant cure for dyspepsia, insom- I nla, rheumatism and general debility. Hotel accommodations and service first class. Rates moderate. EJaslly reached by the Macon and Blr- j mingham railroad. For further information w»Ae to CHHS. L. DRtfiS, Proprietor. ; HOTEL IH| And Cottages. Tallulah Falls, Ga. Open for the season. Board from sls to S3O per month, according to room Six hundred feet of shade piazzas in center of finest scenery at Tallulah. Climate unsurpassed. Wight elevation. All modern Improvements. Table exoel- i lent. 'MRS. B. A. YO4WG. Proprietress, TaJiuiab Falls, Go. Glenn Springs Hotel, Glenn Springs, S. C. Queen of Southern Summer Resorts. There Ik but one Glenn Springs and it has no equal o® the continent for the stom ach, liver, kidneys, bowels and blood. Hotel open from June Ist to October Ist. Cuisine and Service excellent Water shipped the year round. BHMBSON & SIMPGON, Managers. Bedford Alym, Iron and lodine i Springs of Virginia. From whose water the celebrated “Mass” < so extensively known and used, is manu- ; facteurcd. Opens June 15, and is the most j home-Mke place in Virginia for recuper- j atlng. A modern writer on the mineral waters of Europe and America says: "Bedford Springs water cures when .Ml other reme dies have failed, and especially in derange ments peculiar to ftunalea.” I»ng distance telephone o connections, send for a 50-page Interesting pframplet of proofs. P. O. Bedford Springs, Va. 3. R. MABKN, JR., Proprietor. | STURTEVANT HOUSE, | S Broadway a- <l S!» « St., New York, B| B Americas. & European ptan. WH- I M Ram F. Bang, p? jjxdetor. Dr .s i- g M way cable ear.- passing the iooi ■ transfer »c aM pertr of the evty. I Saratoga Springs g I THE KENSINGTON. I and eottages. - —■ • H. A & W. F. BANG, Proprietors, u I New Yosk Office, Sturtevant House. S Ocean View House. St Simon’s Island Beach, Ga Fine surf bathing, good taMe, artesian I water. A. T. ARNOLD. Proprietor. I For Business Men In the heart of the wholesale dis < ► trtet. 1 > For Shoppers 3 minutes walk to Wanamakcra; > 8 minutes walk to Siegel-Coopers X <» Btg Store. Easy of access to the < 4 * gre«t Dry Goods Stores. 1 For Sightseers <► j . One block from care, giving < > ;<, easy transportation to all ooints 4 > Holfil Atal, ;j New York. :• Cor. 11th St. and University <* )< “ Ilace. Only one Mock from < ► )< j, Broadway. < * !; i ROOMS, |1 UP. RESTAURANT, < ► k Prices Reasonable. J ► I MACON AND IH’RMINGH'AM H. R. CO. fPine Monubifn Route.) Effective June 5. 1898. 4 20 pmlLv Macon ArflO 36 aan 4 20 pmiLv Sofkee LvflO 14 am 546 pm jLv ... .CoModen.... Lvj 909 «un 557 pm|Lv ... YaU svIMo... Lv| 857 am 6 27 pmjLv ...Thomaston... Lv] 8 28 am 7 67 pmlAr ...Woodbury... Lvj 7 48 am SOUTH®RN RAMTWAYJ 7 2T> pm!Ar. Warm Springs. Lvl 7 *9 am 603 pmjAr ... .Cobimtme... 8 07 pmjAr* Griffin,.... Lvj 5 50 am 945 pm|Ar . . . Atlanta.^... Lvj 520 am Souther . 7 ratdway. 4 20 amjLv .... Atlanta ....A*! 9 40 am 6 03 pm Lv Griffin Lv| 8 52 am 525 pmjLv ....Columbus.... Lv; 9 am 6 49 pmlLv .Warm Springs. Lvj 8 06 am 707 pmfLv.. ..Woodbury.... Art 7 48 am 7 27 pm|Ar ..‘Harris City.. Lvj 7 28 am CENTRAL “OF GEORGIA. 745 pmjAr .. .Greenville... Jjvi 110 am 5 20 pm|bv ....Columbus.... Arj 9 40 am 7 27 pmlLv ..Harris City.. Arj 7 28 am 820 pmjAr .... LaGrange.... Lvj 635 am Close connection at Maeon and Sofkee with the Georgia Southern and P'lorida Central of Georgia for Savannah, Albany, Southweet Georgia points and Montgom ery, Ala., at Yatesville for Roberta and points on the Atlanta aod Florida di vision of theSoutbem railway, at Harris City City with Central of Gtorgla rallwoy, for Greenville and Columbus, at Wood bury with Southern railway for Colum bus and Griffin, at LaGrange with Se Atlanta and West Point railway. JULIAN R. LANE, General Manager, Macon, Ga. R. G. STONE, Gen. Pass. Agt. PULLMAN CAR LINE ngn I«4 dj&l BETtVtJEN Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or Louisville and Chicago and THE NORTHWEST. Pulman B-jffet Sleepers on night trains. Parlor chairs and dining cars on day trains. The Monon trains make the fest eet time between the Southern winter re sorts and the ewntner resorts of the Northwest. W. H. MoDO-EL, V. V. & G. M. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., Chicago, 111. For further particulars address R. W. GLADING, Gen. Agt. Thomasville, Ge. Slrtg n fs a remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Bpermatorrha*b, Whltae, nnnatnral dia chargfiH, « aoy kiflajimia tion. irritation or ulcera tion ra u c a fi« i- -mi* Jq, hr ar** Noh-ju/ • uixc’it. •3 KoX by Sir If- r a i "'Z-i V = *•|./ -*;•>. paid, lur il.3’. < r : »tr- r-. 75. '•iUrout-r seat • New Steam DYE WORKS, F. H. JOHNSON, Prop’r. 25c Second Street, Macok, Ga. Ladies’ dresses n’cely cleaned t and pressed. Also Gents’ Linen I Suits. 3